Movie #23: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Movie #: 23
Movie Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Year Released: 1964

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Notable Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Tracy Reed

Short Description: An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #39
IMDB.com: #37
Ranker.com: #55
Lifed.com: #22
Empire.com: #26
FilmCrave.com: #98
FlickChart.com: #19



Date Watched: 11/13/2016

Grade: 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)

Rationale: While the latest Stanley Kubrick movie I watched wasn't bad like 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange, I don't get why Dr. Strangelove is so well thought of and ranked so high on the top 251 list. The interactions between the President, General Turgidson, the Soviet Ambassador, the Russian Premier, and Dr. Strangelove in the war room were mildly humorous at best and if there was comedy in the rest of the movie I failed to catch it. At this point Kubrick is what I once thought of Quentin Tarantino: highly overrated.